Exhibition was part of the Mendel Art Gallery's Post-Colonial Landscape series, featured 60 paintings from 1960-1990 selected from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery's retrospective The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years, 1960-1990.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 4, Winter, 1997, pp. 3-9
Description
Contends that while the past 50 years of exhibits have been molded by collectors, promoters and merchants, the next 50 years will benefit from the involvement of Inuit artists and others.
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Contesting Art: Art, Politics, and Identity in the Modern World
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeremy MacClancy
Description
Introduction to themes in the volume which include: anti-colonialism, anti-racism; painting propaganda, picturing power; individuals, groups, categories; art as property; concepts and objects; and the marketing of art.
Chapter 1 from Contesting Art: Art, Politics, and Identity in the Modern World edited by Jeremy MacClancy.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 42-44
Description
Exhibition review mounted at the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, September 12 to December 5, 1998.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, Summer, 1994, pp. 36-38
Description
Exhibition review from the Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, Virginia, 1993-1994.
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Journal of American Institute for Conservation, vol. 38, no. 1, 1999, pp. 45-54
Description
Analysis of the two paintings uses evidence to formulate a hypothesis as to why the artist, Albert Biestadt painted two versions and in what order they were painted.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, Winter, 1994, pp. 31-34
Description
Exhibition reviews of:
The Human Face, March 20 to November 13, 1994.
Matisse: The Inuit Face, April 24 to June 19, 1994.
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Looks at aesthetic philosophies, techniques and personal styles of four Aboriginal female artists; Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
Duration: 51:49.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 34-35
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1999.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 35-37
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, 2000.
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Poitras, once labeled an angry artist, believes anger is foreign to Indigenous philosophies and traditions, instead dictates forgiveness. Her works have display evils done to First Nations people by the church, Western materialism, residential schools and alcohol, but her own worldview is that trials and suffering lead to redemption.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer, 1997, pp. 46-48
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition of the same name mounted at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, April 19 to September 7, 1997.
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Based on the exhibition Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century, the focus is on artists from the Southwest and Oklahoma.
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 3, Fall, 1997, pp. 30-32
Description
Curatorial notes for the exhibition of the same name at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, April 18 to November 16, 1997.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Fall, 1999, pp. 38-39
Description
Curatorial notes for exhibition by the same name organized by Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 2000.
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Journal of Canadian Art History, vol. 16, no. 1, 1994, pp. 10-29
Description
Comments on paintings that juxtapose 'primitive' against 'civilized'. A summary in French follows the article.
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Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall, 1994, pp. 4-13
Description
Comments on three generations of Inuit artists and notes shared characteristics in their drawings.
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